I'm not trying to watch tv online. There is some streaming video I
want to watch. The producers use flowplayer to provide it online. I
think that boxee is what I am looking for.

Thanks

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Flowplayer is a flash video player for the web, you want to configure a
> webplayer to watch TV on?  Are you trying to watch TV over the web?  I
> remember there being a MythTV plugin (using mythweb http://bit.ly/f7iouU)
> that allowed you to hit the mythtv box from outside and watch shows already
> recorded via a webpage.
>
> I do not understand what you are trying to accomplish.
>
> Chris...
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Sunday, April 17, 2011 01:48:31 am Paul Saenz wrote:
>>
>> > Actually, for the video that I want to play on the tv, I believe the
>> > streaming is done through flowplayer. http://flowplayer.org/ At first
>> > glance it appears that flowplayer uses flash, mp3 and FLV.
>> > http://flowplayer.org/ Although I have seen flowplayer before, I'm not
>> > really familiar with flowplayer so I don't really know how it works.
>> > http://flowplayer.org/demos/index.html
>>
>> Are you talking about using flowplayer to run your own video, or to see
>> video
>> on your TV, that you can already see on your computer.
>>
>> If the latter, you can, if your TV has either a computer video input
>> (analog
>> or dvi) or hdmi input, simply connect your computer to your TV to use it
>> as a
>> display device.  If your TV has neither, you'll probably need a hardware
>> video
>> card or adapter to convert the signal.
>>
>> If the former, it appears you can install it in your linux box (I say
>> _appears_ because the documentation and requirement pages on their site
>> don't
>> work properly) and do the same as in the latter example.
>>
>> Jeff
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